When Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Stirm was released from a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam in 1973, surviving 1,966 days in captivity, his thoughts were consumed with finally reuniting with his family.
“You had to come early to get the good room,” Alvarez would sarcastically reply. Having survived almost six years as a POW, according to the Pensacola News Journal, Alvarez would thankfully return ...